KIEV, Feb. 25 – The vacancy rate in business centers in Kiev in February grew more than eightfold compared to September 2008, reaching 25%.

The trend mainly affected A-class business centers located in downtown Kiev, according to a Concorde Development survey of the Kiev office real estate market.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – The effect of a 13% temporary extra charge on some goods imported into the country, which are listed in a law on amendments to some Ukrainian laws to improve the state of Ukraine's balance of payments in the wake of the international financial crisis, could be suspended if any World Trade Organization member objects, according to Anna Derevianenko, CEO of the European Business Association.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih (formerly Kryvorizhstal), Ukraine's biggest steel producer, boosted steel shipments to the CIS 42.1% in 2007 to 1.009 million tons, the company said.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - Natural gas reserves in underground storage facilities in Ukraine shrank by 17.8% to 19.368 billion cubic meters (bcm) in January 2008, the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – A repeat tender may have to be conducted to attract an investor for the construction of a waste incinerator in Kiev’s Desnyansky District said Anatoliy Holubchenko, first deputy head of Kiev City state administration.

WARSAW, Feb. 23 - Polish software integrator Asseco Poland may drop the plan of entering the Russian market if Ukrainian expansion proves safer, the company's chief executive Adam Goral said.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ More than 1.54 million computers were sold in Ukraine in 2006, 20.3% of which, or 313,000 items, were notebooks, IDC computer analysis firm said in its report for Q4 2006.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Mittal Steel Kryviy Rih, Ukraine's biggest steel mill, boosted sales 15.9% in 2006 to 7.089 million tons of steel products.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ Interpipe plans to invest over $600 million in the building of an electric furnace steelmaking complex at its Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant in Dnipropetrovsk, according to an Interpipe report.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ Italy??™s UniCredit Group, which owns two small commercial banks in Ukraine, plans to merge them into one single business by the end of August, a bank official said.